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Friday, August 19, 1927
Late Opening May Be Best, After All
Eastern Carolina farmers seem to would produce a glut that would
be anxious to open their tobacco drive prices much lower than if they
warehouses earlier than the date set can handle the crops with a system
—September 6th. Vet it may be which will not overtax their business
better to start late with the methods (machinery.
that must be followed. I , „ ~ . , ,
I As a matter of fact, the local ware-
The half-dozen concerns that bu> I houses are not the only places rush
the tobacco not only take the east- j f j ur j n g the tobacco season. The
ern ( arolina crop, but go into the , rece j v j n g warehouses of the corn-
Georgia belt, then the South C aro- p an i es are likewise in a strain, and
lina section before reaching us. ( | u , exm ,tj ve offices that are keep
then on through the Piedmont Car- j a ||y on every phase of the busi
olina and \ irginia dark belt, and npss j s a j so | )US y They even have
the burley belt, which taxes them to (() p rov jj e the cash to pay for the
their full capacity, and while the ( () | JacCO
farmers will lose thousands in time
and perhaps in heavy damage to Everything from the grading barn
graded tobacco while they wait, we the office of the bookkeepers on
must remember that there is not Broadway are rushed during the to
enough trained force in the country bacco months,
to care for Georgia, South Carolina, One of the great troubles with our
and North Carolina tobacco crops marketing system is "glut," caus
al) at one time. If all the markets ing the producers to lose enough to
were to open at the same time, it make a fine profit within itself.
What a Change!
We caught a few words from the lawyer only charged him $35 to win
conversation of a friends this week; his case. Of the eight trips neces
and ij, was a young friend, too. He sary to prosecute his suit in Wash
said every child sees all the towns ington, he walked fiye of them. One
and all the summer resorts these (if the trips, just as he had reached
days before he i- (lid enough t(> go to Cherrys Run, a friend overtook him
school, it matters not whether he is and asked, in a kind and cheerful
rich or poor, he goes everywhere way, why he was walking so far:
just the same. and he promptly told him because
He said it was different in his boy- '>e tfid not have to crawl,
hood days a few years ago. He said This same man now has a nice car
he the same lust for adventure and cuyrts far and near every Sun
that people have today, but he put day and many nights to the week,
forth more energy than the boys of from 25 to 50 miles away,
today are willing to put out. He re- Now, after his departing kiss at
membered when he "wanted to see about 11 p. m., he runs in from
Plymouth and Jamesville, so he Washington in 32 minutes; the same
walked down, looked at the sights, distance which once required 7 hours
and walked back home. He also to walk —an increase in speed of
took similar trips to Tarboro, Green- 1310 jier cent. That is a wonderful
ville, antj Washington, just walked achievement to be accomplished in
to see the towns, and he said that the half of a bachelor's life,
at that time he was willing to walk Think of how fast the world will
seven hours just to see a town. -be moving if the last half of this
He described a law suit he had in one man's life increases as rapidly
Beaufort County that required "Tints 4he first half,
walk to Blounts Creek to look over And with this wonderful speed
'his land. He made the trip in a day, age. he finds some faults. He says
finding that he owned "the Blounts* its enables the fellow with a car to
Creek Fishery," which Tie later won have too many girls, which scatters
in his suit. He said one strange his power to centralize his affections,
thing about the case was that his making a fellow feel like a boy in a
THERE ARE A GREAT MANY THINGS WE DO NOT KNOW THERE ARE A GREAT MANY THINGS WE NEVER WILL KNOW
THERE IS ONE THING WE DO KNOW
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Keep Children in School
The wastefulness of child labor,
even where it is under public regu
lation, is shown by recent reports
gathered by the Woman's Home
Companion, in Pittsburgh. There,
as elsewhere, boys and Cfirls between
the ages of 14 and 16 can go to
work by obtaining employment cer
tificates. The records show that
three-fourths of them leave school
forever at 14. Nearly half of them
have not got beyond the sixth grade
in grammar school.
Almost all of them gel into "rou
tine or blind-alley jobs," which do
not prepare them for any specific
adult work, the astute magazine ob
server finds. They keep changing
from one job to another, and they
lose so much time between jobs that
they are idle from 30 to 45 per cent
of the time.
Not Doing Enough Thinking for Ourselves
Would it not be safer in America
for the [>eople who pay the taxes to
have their communities pass upon
the question of expenditures rather
than to have the disbursing officers
to do •both the planning and disburs
ing.
There is where our friends in the
old country beat us in governmental
functions. In England you find the
citizens organizations do the draft
ing of their needs. If it is a school,
a road, a bridge, a highway, or any
other improvement apparently neces
sary for the common good, the re
quest comes from the jx;ople, and
ten-cent store with only a nickel in
his pocket. He finds it hard to se
lect just the thing he wants.
We believe this friend is right
when he says the blessings at the
end of a walk are worth just as
much as those at the end of a ride;
and that any unearned blessing is
usually little appreciated.
Nobody walks now; boys will not
even walk to the old swimming hole
any more, and girls had rather ride
with a cheap man than lo walk with
a good man.
ACHED ALL OVER
WM SoHeriof Dreadfully, Joat
"Woatmf Awaj." look
Curdu, and Sajrc It
Helped Her.
Arlington, Texas.—A resident of
this town for many years, Mrs. J. H.
JacKson, MVS:
"I had suffered dreadfully with an
aching all over my body. At times
my head would give me ao much
trouble I could hardly stand it. I
had been in bed for weeks and it
looked like I was just wasting away.
"1 took 9 bottles of Cardui and my
Strength began to slowly return.
"Sinoe that time I have uaed this
medicine a good many times and it
has always helped me.
"At one time I took Cardui for
several months regularly. I would
be afflicted with sudden apells of
dininess when I could not stand on
my feet. Everything would turn
black before my eyes and I would
feel as if I were going to faint. At
times I would be quite nauaeated. I
turned at once to Cardui and took
it till I waa safely through."
Cardui is a mild, medicinal tonic,
made from purely vegetable ingredi
ents. It has been io use for over CO
years, and in that time thouaands
of woman have written that Cardui
helped them back to good health
Sold by all druggists. NC-IU
THE ENTBKPKISE WILUAMSTON, N. C.
Thus the stale argument that it is
often better to quit school and "get
an early start in life" falls to the
ground.
With few exceptions, these boys
and girls do not get started. They
simply flounder around.
"Send your sons and daughters
back to school this fall," is the ob
server's verdict. "And keep up the
long fight for child-labor legislation
that will prevent headless parents
Ihul employers from depriving other
boys and girls of the education that
this country offers free to its future
citizens."
Progressive education is tending in
the direction of making school tasks
so fascinating that they are no long
er tasks, but projects which the chil
dren are eager to carry through to
completion. »
the officials proceed to provide ways
and means whereby the things are
accomplished.
In our country, we find officers
who do all the thinking. They look
out for the needs of the people
without then) having to trouble them
selves about apy failure of the work;
all they have to look after is the lit
tle matter of paying the bill. It may
be that in times past our spending
friends, in their • eagerness to do
something popular to please us, have
fastened some unnecessary burdens
upon us. At any rate, the governed
are having too much thinking done
for them and are doing too little
thing for themselves.
THE LETTER BOX
Is The World Growing
Worse?
Each day we hear this same ques
tion. Js the world growing worse?
People dfffer in opinions. It is their
THAT FALL WARDROBE
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privilege, but is it? In the opinion
of hundreds of people it is growing
decidedly worse. That is because
they have not received all that life
could give them. It is because they
have not made life worth while.
Dame Fortune has not smiled upon
them or they are pessimistic. There
is an old saying that "Life is just
what you make it." There are peo
ple who sit and hold their hands and
wait for luck to come along and fill
them with their heart's desires.
In every way the world grows bet
ter and better. More things for con
venience are being invented every
day. Means of reducing labor by
hand have been replaced by 7 ma
chines who do more work in a day
than hundreds or even more men
could do in a year. The world be
comes more happy and carefree each
day. There is more controversy to
day over this one subject than any
one other topic that is discussed.
Preachers today are taking as their
subjects this title, and some of them
paint today blacker than anything
under the sun, while others say that
the world grows better every mo
ment.
The girls of today are ridiculed
and criticized more than ever before,
but this is due to the fact that some
people get the wrong idea and cling
to it. Girls of today are as clean
and wise as the people in Victorian
age. They simply demand their
rights and freedom. The girls of to
day make as good mothers and lead
ers as the olden people did centuries
ago. It is true that the styles are
very unlike those of days gone by,
but what of it? Do not the girls of
today have the same right of de
signing their ways and means of
dress as they did in the days of
long ago? The same heart, clean
and sweet, beats in the flapper as it
did in the people of a few years ago.
The girls and boys of today will
make as good parents as their moth
ers and fathers do. Is it that the
folks of the nineteenth century are
waking to the realization of the fact
that they require more freedom and
gaiety and they take these means of
geting it. The skirts the modern
girl wears are much more sanitary
than those that used to be with the
street-cleaning bottoms.
Tfie men of today have broader
ideas, higher ideals, etc. Of course,
it is true that we have many bril
liant men of years gone by who de
serve credit for the great things
which they did for our count/y, the
battles which they fought to save
our country from ruin, but the young
men of today who gave their lives
at the front in the great World War
deserve credit that no other men
fact, all the doings of the business
bravery during this time goes to
show that they were prepared in
both mind and spirit for the things
which they knew they must under
go. Their training, which they re
ceived in our colleges, training camps
etc., was the reason for their pre
paredness.
Today, we can sail the oceans in
large steamers and, reach any part
of the world in a very short time.
We have aeroplanes in which to soar
the heavens as a bird; trains, auto
mobiles, trolleys, and every kind of
vehicle in which to travel the globe
to any point to which we care to.
Telegraph, so that when we send a
message to a point, whether a mat
ter of a few miles or a million miles,
it can reach them in only a very
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